Hi there,
Please be aware there are update limits in addition to the rate
limit. There are also the spam and abuse marshals looking out for
accounts acting suspiciously. Posting a bunch of link-only tweets
seems like it's very likely to run afoul of them and get the account
suspended. I can't say for sure since they're always evolving the
types of abuse the check for but I don't recommend this course of
action. Have you thought about using one of the APIs built for this,
like backtweets [1]?
Thanks;
– Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
Twitter Dev
[1] - Disclaimer: I've not used the API at http://backtweets.com/api
but it seems like what you're looking for.
On Jul 15, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Bill Kocik <bko...@gmail.com> wrote:
So for 10 URLs, you post 10 status updates, then retrieve your own
last 10 updates in one call by retrieving your own timeline via /
statuses/user_timeline(and that's the one hit against your rate
limit).
If Twitter will shorten multiple URLs in the same tweet, you could
get even more than that. I just tried putting two longer URLs in a
tweet and it didn't shorten them at all, just did the ellipsis
thing, so that was inconclusive. This method is rather unreliable,
I suppose... and I don't want to post more test tweets. My mother
will see them on Facebook and become confused. ;-)
Nick
